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- Lidén, Kerstin, et al.
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Walking on the wild side : On cultural diversity and the Pitted Ware Culture along the Swedish east coast during the Middle Neolithic
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Ingår i: From Stonehenge to the Baltic. - : Archaeopress, Oxford. - 9781407301303 ; , s. 1-11
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There was a rich diversity in material culture during the Middle Neolithic in Scandinavia and the Baltic region, and the archaeological remains have therefore generally been labelled as one out of several parallel archaeological cultures. What these “cultures” represent, and whether or not they correspond to actual groups of people has long been debated. Particularly the Pitted Ware Culture has given rise to various hypotheses. By applying stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses on human and faunal skeletal remains from Pitted Ware contexts, and to compare these data with stable isotope data derived from sites of other cultural attribution, we were able to demonstrate that the Pitted Ware Culture in fact represents a separate group of people, not only distinguished by their characteristic pottery, but also by their food culture, which was mainly based on the utilization of seal. On the basis of stable isotope, radiocarbon and archaeological data, various other hypotheses regarding the Pitted Ware Culture and its stance vis-à-vis the Funnel Beaker and Battle Axe (Corded Ware) Cultures could thus be refuted.
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- Papmehl-Dufay, Ludvig, 1976-
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Shaping an Identity : Pottery and potters of the Pitted Ware culture
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Ingår i: From Stonehenge to the Baltic. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781407301303 ; , s. 25-33
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper deals with pottery and cultural identity during the middle Neolithic (c. 3300–2300 cal BC) in Southeast Sweden. The problem area treated is very large, and what is said below reflects several of my previously published cases on the subject (e.g. Papmehl-Dufay 2003, 2004, in press) as well as my recently published PhD thesis (2006). Here I approached ceramic materials from a specific time period in a specific area, and with the aid of different analytical methods tried to illuminate various technological and practical issues that I assume have been socially embedded. The general aim of the study was to investigate the role of pottery within the so-called Pitted Ware culture in southeast Sweden. Two large pottery assemblages from two sites on the island of Öland were approached with similar questions and similar methods, intending to reveal similarities and differences in the production and use of ceramic products on the island during the period. Methods used include recording and statistical treatment of large ceramic assemblages, lipid residue analysis by means of Gas Chromatography combined with Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), and technological analysis of clays and wares in binocular microscope and thin section. In the following a brief review of the problems and the results will be given, and the issue of pottery and cultural identity will be touched upon.
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